Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Tuesday night told the Young Republicans to decide "whether McCarthy is an evil product of the Democrats or an asset of the G.O.P...
...advisory staff is dominated by the Dewey-Brownell wing of the party which, while touted as the "liberal" wing, has in recent months not lived up to this expectation. Such men as Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Brownell have seemingly convinced the President that McCarthy is too valuable an asset to the Republican party, particularly in light of the coming November Congressional elections, for Eisenhower to risk a split with him. Eisenhower has said that he does not want the elections to be fought on the issue of Communist subversion, but his political advisors seem to have persuaded him that...
Successful Failure. Tourism may be Haiti's greatest single asset in the years just ahead. Holiday travelers, especially the kind who hope for something more than a kidney-shaped swimming pool at the end of their plane rides, quickly sense a warming magic in Haiti. Flaming poinsettias and throbbing drums can make the blood run quicker, even in a dowager from Des Moines. The heady amber rum, made from whole cane juice aged in old sherry casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming...
Worst of all, the fence concept gains no advantage for the free world from the strength of the best anti-Communist armies in Asia, the Republic of Korea forces and Chinese nationalist forces on Formosa. Held in by U.S. policy, Chiang's strength becomes a wasting, aging asset to the free world. Some U.S. planners, notably J.C.S. Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, object strenuously to a policy which grants the Communists time to stabilize their position and prepare for a next move...
...reputation for humor is at once Owen's greatest asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian...